courtney regan is here. >> if you're investing in retail you got to do your homework. retailer and largest home improvement retailer turning in different. walmart misses bay penny. 7% below last year. that's lower than last year and a billion half shy of analyst as estimates. sales u.s. stores opened at least a year improved 1.1%. third straight quarter of improvement for walmart. traffic did also improve. walmart struggling internally the grocery and store experience as well as exalternatival fact jobs the strong dollar. consumers saving and paying down debt. home depot benefiting from that recovering housing market. profit revenue same store sales all beating estimates. u.s. same store sales up very strong, 7.1%. retailer upping its sales guidance. interestingly tjx home good stores also saw those comps improve 9%. bargain hunting consumers driving strong results across the personality disorder with tjx beating consensus as it ups its earnings and sales forecast. after the bell we'll hear from online marketplace etsy. we only have a handful of estimates to go on but

. >> courtney regan joining us on the floor with more with what's moving. >>> happy friday.ock exchange slightly flat. if we look around the world and where we're taking the lead perhaps, asian markets mixed. china rally continuing to cool over there. moving over to europe mostly higher the bond market calming. greece, of course the outlier is down about 2%. the euro is down -- below 1.14. this is something that we continue to watch as we see these currency mentions in a bunch of earnings reports. again, we have lost some of that s&p 500 did close at a record high. we'll see how we can end up the week here. traders, perhaps, placing those bets that those rates won't rise in june. gold, that commodity falling from those three-month highs and we're getting some earnings from some of the smaller players, still those equity prices are falling. down more than 10%. earnings aftermath on this friday morning lot of these consumer companies, el pollo loco not a lot to like in their earnings report. you touched on king digital, lack of new releases to hurt its current quarter. keurig

courtney regan, what's happening? >> good afternoon to you. here's what's happening at this hour.s tell nbc news that live samples of the deadly anthrax bacteria were accidentally shipped from the army's dougway proving ground to utah to the defense department and private research labs in the united states. dod said there is no risk to the public as all samples have been secured. walmart and the attorney for comedian tracy morgan and two other men announcing a settlement agreement ending a lawsuit against walmart arising out of a multivehicle accident last june on the new jersey turnpike. the terms remain confidential. morgan released a statement saying walmart did right by me and my family and my associates and their families. i am grateful that the case was resolved am my ka xwli. >>> japan one step closer to restarting a nuclear plant. regulators say they finished inspecting the sendai nuclear plant in southwestern japan. >>> the first statute of an african-american soldier unveiled at the national civil war museum in harrisburg pennsylvania. he fought in the civil war and died

joining us now courtney regan. two months big changes.are they facing here and can he make this attorneyturnaround happen? >> a lot of folks thought, okay a lot of positives, but nothing really ground breaking. when you think about mcdonald's, it's the world's largest restaurant change, so any little change is a big change. turning around the titanic takes a long time. you're facing lots of macro challenges with changing tastes from consumers, us wanting things like antibiotic free chicken which will really put a big strankle onadvantagele on the supply chain. >> they tore down restaurants, put you up new looking restaurants, new menu healthier menu. coffee making better coffee than just about anybody. >> yeah and there are things that mcdonald's does well. breakfast makes up 25% of the sales. they're testing breakfast all day in certain markets in san diego because there that is a segment where it's very competitive. but folks want healthier tasting food and healthier food. there has been a lot of question about what is actually in the c